In a lapse that national security experts call baffling, a high-ranking FBI agent filed a sensitive internal manual detailing the bureau’s secret interrogation procedures with the Library of Congress, where anyone with a library card can read it.

For years, the American Civil Liberties Union fought a legal battle to force the FBI to release a range of documents concerning FBI guidelines, including this one, which covers the practices agents are supposed to employ when questioning suspects. Through all this, unbeknownst to the ACLU and the FBI, the manual sat in a government archive open to the public. When the FBI finally relented and provided the ACLU a version of the interrogation guidebook last year, it was heavily redacted; entire pages were blacked out. But the version available at the Library of Congress, which a Mother Jones reporter reviewed last week, contains no redactions. . . . Read Complete Report

(Satire) In an effort to Glamorize Obamacare and cater to the kids The Obama Administration has released a new mascot in order to get young children into the act of giving their personal information to untrained and sometimes criminal strangers. This information could get sold to telemarketers.

Rogers County Sheriff’s Department arrested three people in what appears to be an accidental shooting. One of the men told deputies he’d shot his friend while the two were on a Sasquatch hunting expedition. . . .Read Complete Report

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine, has been in “drunken stupors,” and was caught on camera in an expletive-laced rant. But he’s still having a better month than President Barack Obama.

Ford has the approval of 42 percent of 1,049 Toronto voters surveyed by Forum Research. The poll results, released on Friday, came as Ford saw most of his powers stripped by the city council in Canada’s largest city.

Divorces are often not amicable, nor cheap. But this divorce takes the descriptions “hostile” and “expensive” to extremes. The ex-husband, Alan Markovitz, is a strip-club owner in Detroit, Mich. who bought the home next to his ex-wife. And then he erected a giant statue in the shape of a hand with its middle finger extended, facing his ex-wife’s house. . . From description published with video.

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